Toulouse – Bordeaux: Dupont brilliant, Willis monstrous: the notes of the final

Please, Toulouse stadium made short work of Union Bordeaux-Bègles on Friday in the Top 14 final (59-3). Antoine DupontThomas Ramos and Peato Mauvaka were the artists of a one-sided match where Jack Willis also reigned in the fight

Toulouse – Bordeaux: they carried their team

It didn’t take him more than a few minutes to leave his mark on this final by scoring the first try of the match (6th). Starving, Antoine Dupont created a masterpiece before the half-hour mark (24th) which literally destroyed UBB’s hopes in this match. A real boss logically elected man of the match.

The stress ? Peato Mauvaka doesn’t know! Now used to playing big matches, the Toulouse hooker was also poison for the Bordeaux defense. Like a three-quarter, he is decisive on Dupont’s magnificent attempt with a blind pass of great beauty. Just before that, he had scored his team’s second try in the corner (21st).

He could have scored a double in the first half but Ludovic Cayre refused the try. He would have deserved it as his volume of play was impressive.

There was talk of hunger for Dupont, and he gave the impression of wanting to devour the whole world. The frustration of the Champions Cup, where he was not a starter in the final, is surely a reason for this rage. This Friday, Thomas Ramos also wanted to mark this final with a hot iron and showed the killer that he can be on a great day.

Like Dupont, he scored twice in this final (64th, 73rd).

After greeting the artists, we couldn’t not dwell on the Toulouse warriors who allowed Bordeaux to be extinguished in the first half. Jack Willis was the most beautiful incarnation of this. But what a monster! Impregnable in the ground game, the Englishman had a great time between repeated caramels and scratched balls. The Bordeaux forwards won’t stop seeing his face in their nightmares in the coming days

Toulouse – Bordeaux: they missed out

The UBB staff did everything to get him on the Vélodrome pitch this Friday but he was clearly not at 100% and was never able to make an offensive impact in this match. His courage was not enough.

The Girondin pack has been crushed and it is hard to isolate one player more than another in this slump. The UBB hooker also had the misfortune of experiencing waste on the sidelines which was costly, especially on the first Toulouse try. A match to forget for him and his partners.

He was expected to be one of the stars of this final. Unfortunately, we saw nothing of his talent. Certainly blunted like the majority of his partners, he was non-existent offensively and quickly lowered his head. The highlight was Ange Capuozzo’s last try where he didn’t even pretend to want to stop the Italian.

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